1992 Demo Tape Digital Downloads

The official 1992 three song demo tape.  Recorded in the basement of the Alcoholic House, then walked around to record stores, clubs, radio stations, and local zines.  3 songs: fB Song, Broken String, and Pain in the Ass.  This was the tape that Denny's sister Jill took to Blake from eMpTy and got him to listen to.  Allegedly there was a bottle of hooch involved!  

3 song digital download.  Includes Sicko Demo Download Pack Guide pdf.

This is the only demo tape we made a cover for. Denny's girlfriend designed the cover, copies were run at Kinko's, and Ean's roommates all colored them in by hand. If you bought the 2025 reissued 3-Song Demo Tape, this is the same content as that release. This tape made it to clubs for booking, and to a few record shops like Fallout in Seattle that catered to local music and allowed demo tapes. We also sold these at shows. There may have been 50 or 100 of these in total in the original set. The reissue consisted of 100 copies in red. These songs were also recorded on Ean's 8 track cassette recorder. The songs were sounding more "Sicko" by this time... Ean's fB Song aping Seattle's Fastbacks, Denny's Broken String doing a plausible Cringer, and Denny's Pain in the Ass being a fairly unique track that Ean and Denny had played in a short lived early version of the band in college.

Track List:

1. fB Song
2. Broken String
3. Pain in the Ass

The official demo (above) was actually demo #2 of 3 demos!  The other two never got nice J cards, and were super limited in distribution.  These songs are also available to you as an upgrade.  Includes Sicko Demo Download Pack Guide pdf.

First Demo

This demo was made with Ean's Tascam 688 8-track cassette recorder, a fancy at the time 4 track that managed to cram 8 tracks of sound onto a single cassette tape, with a resulting level of fidelity that you might expect. This was a hand-dubbed tape that our manager Carl Drunko took around to clubs to get us shows. The songs reflect early ideas of what Sicko would sound like. Apathetic - Denny's punky ode to 90's era slacker laziness, I'm Not Talking to You - Denny's Lemonheads inspired story of canceling someone that pissed him off, Hygiene - Ean's very silly Country Punk number, and Out of Time - Ean's mostly horrible attempt to be alty in a Dinosaur Jr / Sonic Youth style.  In the end, the tape got us a few shows and shuffled us along to the next stage.

Track List:

1. Apathetic
2. I'm Not Talking to You
3. Hygiene
4. Out of Time

Third Demo

This tape consists of tracks from the first real studio session at Egg Studios with Kurt Bloch, as well as tracks from Jeff Jenkins' (of Moral Crux) basement reel to reel sessions with the band. These versions of Count Me Out, Broken String, Kathy's Dance, and The fB Song would make it onto the first eMpTy 7". Country and 80 Dollars were also recorded in that session, but would be released on the first LP You Can Feel the Love in This Room and the split 7" with the Mr. T Experience, respectively. The version of Pain in the Ass from the Second Demo reappears here, followed by 5 songs that Jeff recorded for us: The Best Thing in the World, Along the Way, Art Chicks, Lady, Apathetic, Hygiene. This demo made it to a few bookers for shows, local stations for airplay, and was sold via mail order for a brief time. We didn't really need a demo at this point since we had a 7" and an LP on the way, but it seemed a waste to not put them out there!

Track List:

1. Count Me Out
2. Broken String
3. Kathy's Dance
4. The fB Song
5. Country
6. 80 Dollars
7. Pain in the Ass
8. The Best Thing in the World
9. Along the Way
10. Art Chicks
11. Lady
12. Apathetic (alternate version)
13. Hygiene (alternate version)